Mexico High School cross country team had a successful match Thursday at Hannibal. Leading off the race was the leadership of girls team captain Maddie Prince with a 13th place overall finish and a medal on what was a hilly course.

"All our girls looked strong on this course, DXC kids passed other teams on all the big hills, and maintained that lead with endurance as they worked their way up in the race. Although we have not been training on lots of hills, we have been training lots of miles this year, which really showed as other teams started looking fatigued and DXC just kept bringing it," stated MHS coach John Wilbers.

This was especially true on the boys side where the varsity emerged victorious to take the first place team award and an overwhelming 11 individual medals across the varsity and junior varsity teams. The JV race was led most of the three miles by sophomore Spencer Freeman, with teammates Drew Slay and Logan Anselmi close behind.

"I was just really impressed with how our team looked, and excited to see the commanding performance we had," said Wilbers.

VARSITY BOYS INDIVIDUAL 5k

M = MEDAL

3rd Malik Holman FR 17.41 - M

7th Jake Vitale SR 18.19 - M

9th Alex Shaw JR 19:27 - M

13th Jordan Jones FR 19.07 - M

19 th Sam Fayad JR 19.22

24th -Raven Twenter SO 19:42

35nd Hayden Hobbs SR 20.57

(74 runners entered)

TEAM VARSITY BOYS SCORES

1. Mexico 46

2. Hannibal 71

3. Moberly 74

4. Troy 76

5. Kirksville 155

6. Marion Co. 158

7. Palmyra 201

8. Clark Co. 214

9. MMA 243

10. Pittsfield 246

11. Centralia 285

JV BOYS INDIVIDUAL 5k

M = MEDAL

2nd Spencer Freeman 20:09 - M

4th Drew Slay 20:16 - M

7th Logan Anselmi 20:29 - M

8th Scotty Martin 20:30 (1:10) - M

11th Alex Hamilton 21:10 - M

12th Micah Gwinn 21:14 - M

15th Brad Hutchinson 21:16 - M

16th Dakota McGrath 21:35

17th Dalton Wilson 21:42

19th Zach George 21:54

21st Darrin Taylor 21:56

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL 5k

M = MEDAL

13th Maddie Prince SO 22.57 - M

22nd Danielle Bohr SR 24.23

28th Rachel Heightshoe FR 25.24

34th Mia Case 26.06

44th Lauren Ransom SO 28.17

(47 runners)

VARSITY GIRLS TEAM SCORES

1. Troy 35

2. Moberly 57

3. Hannibal 73

4. Kirskville 88

5. Mexico 107

6. Marion Co. 123

JV GIRLS INDIVIDUAL 5k

33-Kirby Weber 34:35

35-Christiana Jordan 35.40

Saturday's cross country meet results will be published in Tuesday's Ledger.